IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge

The IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge is an annual athletics contest organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. First held in 2010, the series of hammer throw competitions for men and women are primary held at meetings with IAAF World Challenge status. The rankings are decided by combining the total (in metres) of each athlete's three greatest throws at the permit events during the season. Further points can be gained by those who break or equal the world record mark for the event.[1]

The total prize money available is US$202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each receive $30,000, while second and third placed athletes are entitled to $20,000 and $14,000 respectively. Increasingly smaller prizes are given to the remaining throwers who rank in the top twelve.[1] The 2010 men's and women's competitions were won by Koji Murofushi and Betty Heidler, respectively.[2] The eleven meetings which had permit status in 2010 offered either a men's contest, a women's contest, or both – an arrangement which gave athletes of each sex a total of seven opportunities to score points for the challenge.[1]

Meetings

Roughly contiguous with the IAAF World Challenge circuit, a permit hammer throw event was held at all meetings with the exception of Melbourne Track Classic in March and the Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat in June.[3][4]

Meeting City Country Month Type
Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar Dakar  Senegal April Women
Osaka Grand Prix Osaka  Japan May Men
Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Daegu  South Korea May Women
Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo Rio de Janeiro  Brazil May Both
Golden Spike Ostrava Ostrava  Czech Republic May Both
Fanny Blankers-Koen Games Hengelo  Netherlands May Men
Znamensky Memorial Zhukovsky  Russia June Women
Meeting de Atletismo Madrid Madrid  Spain July Men
ISTAF Berlin  Germany August Women
Rieti Meeting Rieti  Italy August Both
Hanzekovic Memorial Zagreb  Croatia September Men

Medalists

Men

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2010
 Koji Murofushi
 Japan		 238.52 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan		 236.02 Libor Charfreitag
 Slovakia		 235.26
2011
 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary		 239.03 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan		 235.72 Primož Kozmus
 Slovenia		 233.90
2012
 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary		 242.35 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland		 236.47 Oleksiy Sokyrskyy
 Ukraine		 233.39
2013
 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland		 244.23 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary		 244.17 Lukáš Melich
 Czech Republic		 239.80
2014
 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary		 244.84 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland		 241.49 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan		 241.37
2015
 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland		 248.01 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan		 236.20 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary		 234.75

Women

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2010
 Betty Heidler
 Germany		 225.88 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland		 225.30 Tatyana Lysenko
 Russia		 223.96
2011
 Betty Heidler
 Germany		 228.09 Yipsi Moreno
 Cuba		 220.46 Kathrin Klaas
 Germany		 219.77
2012
 Betty Heidler
 Germany		 230.49 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland		 223.13 Tatyana Lysenko
 Russia		 222.05
2013
 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland		 233.83 Tatyana Lysenko
 Russia		 227.59 Betty Heidler
 Germany		 226.93
2014
 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland		 232.52 Betty Heidler
 Germany		 228.54 Kathrin Klaas
 Germany		 222.65
2015
 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland		 235.28 Betty Heidler
 Germany		 222.28 Martina Hrasnová
 Slovakia		 222.20

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hammer Challenge set to throw Dakar into a spin. IAAF (2010-04-22). Retrieved on 2010-09-15.
  2. ↑ "Murofushi and Heidler take overall titles and prize of $30,000 each – IAAF World Hammer Throw Challenge". IAAF. 2010-09-08. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  3. ↑ IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge Calendar. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-15.
  4. ↑ IAAF World Challenge Calendar. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-15.
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